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...purse for the fight totaled $6.5 million, a richer sum than could have been found in the U.S., says Yuri Fedorov, the fight's Russian promoter. Fedorov also promoted the first title fight in Moscow, last December, for which he paid Maskaev $3 million, double the fighter's standard...
...this is true, it is almost more disturbing. There is nothing wrong with having high standards for beauty. But women seem to be the only ones with such standards. For the most part, men—other than a few beleaguered metrosexuals—seem contented to look as though they have just fallen out of bed. Indeed, one begins to glimpse the absurdity of the double standard when one contemplates men making typically “female” remarks like, “I feel so fat today,” or, “What a great...
...researchers conducted Phase I trials at Buck and at the Cancer Research Network in Plantation, Fla. Their 21 participants had stage IV metastatic breast cancer, which had continued to progress despite an average of four rounds of standard treatment, including chemo and hormone therapy. The patients took 12 g a day of Ban Zhi Lian, a dose that's three times more concentrated than the amount found in a cup of brewed tea. After about a year, 25% of the patients saw stabilization in their disease for 90 days, and 19% for 180 days. The experimenters say BZL101 works...
...parade that wound its way down JFK Street in celebration of Oktoberbest last weekend was an altogether standard procession, featuring energetic marching bands, costumed dancers, awkward stilt-walkers, and left-leaning political dissent. Nothing unusual or controversial—just jovial calls for the impeachment of the President, signs to the effect of “Honk if You Think Iraq is the Greatest Travesty in the History of the World,” and other meaningful jabs at our evil Commander-in-Chief...
...will also co-direct the NCT’s first entirely student-run show, “Children of Eden,” this January. He says that the theater’s introduction of such cutting-edge technology will raise the standard of student theater offerings...